Artificial Intelligence All-in-One For Dummies
by Chris Minnick, John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron, Stephanie Diamond, Pam Baker, Daniel Stanton, Shiv Singh, Paul Mladjenovic, Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts, Jeffrey Allan
Chapter 4
Pioneering Specialized Hardware
IN THIS CHAPTER
Using standard hardware
Using specialized hardware
Improving your hardware
Interacting with the environment
Understanding the hardware behind AI is critical for understanding its full potential. As AI advances, the technology supporting it should evolve to meet increasing demands. This chapter explores how AI hardware has evolved, starting with general-purpose components and advancing to specialized processors tailored for complex AI applications. You determine the benefits and limitations of standard hardware, the innovations driving specialized hardware, and the computational advancements boosting AI performance.
Relying on Standard Hardware
Most AI projects at least begin with standard hardware because modern off-the-shelf components provide significant processing power, especially when compared to components from the 1980s, when AI first began to produce usable results. Consequently, even if you can’t ultimately perform production-level work by using standard hardware, you can advance far enough along with your experimental ...
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